REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



47 



EXCHANGE OF GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS. 



The following table shows the number of packages handled during the year for the 

 several branches of the Government. By comparison with the last report it will be 

 observed that there has been an increase this year of 2.5 per cent in the transmissions 

 abroad and of 60 per cent in the receipts. The packages enumerated as sent for the 

 Library of Congress were those forwarded in conformity with the act of Congress of 

 1867. 



Statement of Government exchanges during the year 1898-99. 



Name of bureau. 



American Historical Associa- 

 tion 



Astrophysical Observatory 



Bureau of American Etlinol- 

 ogy 



Bureau of American Republics 



Bureau of Education 



Bureau of Medicine and Sur- 

 gery 



Bureau of the Mint 



Bureau of Navigation 



Bureau of Statistics, Depart- 

 ment of State 



Bureau of Statistics, Treasury 

 Department 



Bureau of Steam Engineering, 

 Navy Department 



Census Office 



Civil Service Commission 



Coast and Geodetic Survey 



Commissioners of the District 

 of Columbia 



Comptroller of the Currency. . . 



Department of Agriculture 



Department of the Interior 



Department of Labor 



Department of State 



Entomological Commission 



Fish Commission 



General Land Office 



Geological Survey 



Name of bureau. 



Hydrogxaphic Office 



Intercontinen tal Railway 

 Commission 



Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion 



Library of Congress 



Light-House Board 



Marine-Hospital Service 



National Academy of Sciences. 



National Museum 



National Zoological Park 



Nautical Almanac Office 



Naval Observatory 



Navy Department 



Office of the Chief of Engineers. 



Office of Indian Affairs 



Ordnance Office, War Depart- 

 ment 



Patent Office 



President of the United States. 



Signal Office 



Smithsonian Institution 



Superintendent of Documents. 



Surgeon-G eneral's Olfice 

 (.\rmy) 



Treasury Department 



War Department 



War Records Office 



Weather Bureau 



Total 



Packages. 



Received Sent 

 for. by. 



14 

 12,329 



13 



69 



267 



15 



26 



119 



6 



30 



2 



54 



1 



8 



2, 031 



128 



4 



31 



40 



16,554 



30 



13, 798 



1 



37 



795 



3,173 



2 



231 



497 



94 



1,280 



6, 221 

 151 



347 

 113 

 100 

 53 

 940 



33,001 



